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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

How can I allocate a variable to a specific section?

I want a variable to be allocated in the on-chip RAM. I have all sections (.text, .rodata, .rwdata, .heap, and .stack) in DDR2_SDRAM in the auto-generated linker script. I define a global varia...
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16 years ago

Well it seems that you were right, a negative offset is being added to the variable address!

The "size" value is less than a region block size ( which is 65535 Byte ) and I have tried the read operation before using the same size, to different memory device than the onchip RAM, and it passed successfully.

Maybe I will change my strategy.

Thanks for paying attention